[Jython-users] Unexpected ValueError for int function

[Christian J. <chr...@gm...>]

I am not informed about how Python 2.2's behavior is,
but in Python 2.3 even a number outside the integer range is properly
handled by the built-in function int by returning the correct number
of type long.

Besides, if there really should be an error thrown for a string
argument whose designated number exceeds the limit of an int type
*OverflowError* would make more sense than ValueError in my opinion.

See what I mean below:

>>> import sys
>>> int('%d' % (sys.maxint+1,))
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: invalid literal for __int__: 2147483648

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Best Regards
Christian Junker